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Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) bacteraemia is a common infection worldwide, with mortality rates of around 20%, but little research has been done on how best to treat it. This episode explores the results of the ARREST trial, which looked at adding rifampicin to standard antistaphylococcal antibiotic treatment.

Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) bacteraemia is a common infection worldwide, with mortality rates of around 20%, but little research has been done on how best to treat it. This episode explores the results of the ARREST trial, which looked at adding rifampicin to standard antistaphylococcal antibiotic treatment. This is the short version of the recording. A longer version is available on the MRC CTU SoundCloud.

Back in January 2017, Professor Patrick Royston was awarded the Stata Journal Editors’ Prize 2016, for his significant contributions to Stata and the Stata community over the last 25 years, and for three papers he published in the Stata Journal during the previous two years. Today, Patrick will officially receive his award at 2017 London Stata Users Group meeting in London. To commemorate this occasion, we have interviewed Patrick for the first podcast in our new series 'MRCCTU: The Ideas...

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